Sutton: Brute force isn't intelligence — and Kaiser says we must move beyond Transformers
Sam_Witteveen · x · 2026-11-08
Richard Sutton argues that brute-force computation alone won't produce intelligence: clever new methods are needed and the science of AI is far from finished. Reposting, Lukasz Kaiser agrees and goes further — even with RLVR on top, we need learning systems beyond the current Transformer stack, adding that fundamental research is back.
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